#Explosive Conflict

[ivyodessa]

so I watched the new planet of the apes

[1296-very-good-year]

Jinx directly and indirectly drives Jayce's entire arc in S1. She nearly kills him 4 times, and almost everything he does is in response to her actions, and the danger she represents by weaponizing Hextech. He only meets Viktor bc of her, and he only enters politics because she stole the gemstone.

They're such interesting foils too. Both genius inventors, one with strict morals and one without, I can't wait to see how season 2 will use this! Jinx abducted and terrified his surrogate little sister, and she blew up the peace deal just as he got every councillor to vote for it in the finale. Their meeting would be so crazy... Jayce must HATE her!

Meanwhile, Season 2:

And when they finally do meet... its offscreen....

[villainship]

Finally - the story cutscene after EC

A few months ago we did a speedrun of the first three, so I picked up a batch of one-time missions with the story cutscenes. The military man getting assigned big, difficult jobs. . .

Part 1 intros (EV, KP, EC), Part 2 (EC inside the phase), the ops themselves (plus DF & DP), and the mission conclusions (EV & KP - minus EC, which I only had half the mission before we started)

I was tanking for it in DPS spec, which was fun n exciting

[imagine-darksiders]

Minor spoilers for the next chap of CHWH, regarding Death and Y/n:

[crispy-art-on-fire]

What if Optimus got amnesia and didn't remember anything since he was kicked out of the academy? Especially how would Blitzwing react?!

I appreciate your hard work, I really like your stories both written and drawn!

This would need a whole fanfic to explore because that would essentially put Optimus right back in the trauma of losing -and feeling responsible for losing- Elita-1 as well as being stripped of everything he worked for. He wouldn't recognize anyone. Like in canon he's had thousands of years to mourn and live with himself again, he's a mess but he's fine most of the time. Amnesia plot would remove all of that.

So we got the layer of the repair team needing to re-explain the plot of the show to him especially the part that whoops Decepticons are actually not all dead. Optimus has zero confidence in anything at the moment and trying to deal with being on an organic planet with bots that he was their supposed leader of.

If this was happening at the same time he had been dating Blitzwing? Oh we are now in a boiling pot because Blitzwing is going to react badly both when he thinks Optimus is ignoring him as well as after finding out he doesn't remember anything. The person who Blitzwing loves is infatuated with isn't the person who he sees now and like, Optimus wouldn't understand why he would've chosen to be with Blitzwing and so would only treat Blitzwing as an enemy. So Blitzwing would be in the camp of "we need to bring Optimus' memory right now" and so in the effort to do that would be very antagonistic.

Like Wings might try to use this as an opportunity that the Autobots don't have leadership anymore but Zing and Blitz would repeatedly get distracted by "our boyfriend doesn't remember us!" And their knowledge of the past is kept to their dates and fighting and so without being able to reveal they actually dating they're gonna choose recreating their fights.

From Optimus POV he's having a bad time and then there's this Decepticon who seems to hates his guts and the only one who knows what's actually going on is Ratchet. Who's absolutely not going to tell him.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[pencildragons]

FIRM believer in the idea i had ten seconds ago that, in AUs where his life is just a tad more stable than fanon (war ends, modern au, etc), fox uses mobility aids .. yeah he's really normal about it haha (LIE). i also think a big part of him accepting that he needs them AND not resenting them or himself for using them is giving them the SICKEST PAINT JOB known to man and then covering that in cute tooka stickers

[tomorrowusa]

On Friday, shares of Tesla closed –12.46% down for the past week and –30.75% down for the period since January 1st.

And for the 4th time in 8 launches, a SpaceX "Starship" exploded after takeoff. Debris rained down over the Caribbean and disrupted air travel along the US East Coast as for north as Philadelphia.

Musk has been anointed co-president by Donald Trump to promote "government efficiency". It seems that Musk has been unsuccessful at efficiency in his own businesses.

In contrast to SpaceX, Europe this week successfully launched an Ariane 6 rocket from its base in Kourou.

When Europe needed it most, the Ariane 6 rocket finally delivered

The Ariane 6 carried a French spy satellite.

In her vid about Musk's latest SpaceX failure, Rachel Maddow had news about a new billboard in Times Square. If you happen to be visiting Midtown Manhattan, do a "Fire Musk" selfie to show your friends. If you're outside the area, you can still visit the site advertised there...

FIREMUSK.COM

[drinkingdeadpeopletea]

i like it So Much that the show ended without hieronymous telling anyone from midst that he blew up the moon and i like it So Much that everyone who even knows he did is dead. ping-ponging back and forth in my brain between wanting to write a scene where he eventually does tell sherman what happened and wanting to think that he really just takes that secret all the way to his grave <3 i LOVE when characters are LIARS!

[aroaessidhe]

2025 reads / storygraph

Love Points To You

YA contemporary coming of age

an artist struggling to get used to the idea of moving in with her new stepmother & stepsister can't wait to go away to art school

when her ipad is destroyed, her rich classmate offers to buy her a replacement in exchange for concept art for an otome game she’s developing, and as they work on the game, they start to fall for each other

while she tries to get used to her new family situation, and the fact that her parents seem to be more invested in her stepsister’s future while ignoring hers

bi ace MC, bi demi LI

[ilovereadingandstuff]

Just finished watching episode 11 season 7...

and god...

it was...beautiful.

Traumatizing.

Painful.

But so poetic...

I truly can't express how I'm feeling.

I hadn't caught up with the manga yet when his death happened and I knew of it as an spoiler...the knowledge was there even though I deny it to myself for long time up until i read it myself...and I also didn't cry because the impact wasn't just there...

BNHA has always touched something so deep within me...the show resonated with me for the very first moment i watched it, and it accompained me throught some of the toughest moments in my life these past few years...

But I have counted the times it has made me cry...And I'm actually suprised to see that this time I didn't.

I'm kinda dissapointed in myself for that...when I'm aware of how this show in its totallity means to me...but the pain was also there...to a palpable degree.

Izuku and Katsuki are the ones who i love the most...because I feel them to a personal level...

Their characters and personalities got me up when I most needed it...and they still do 'till this today.

And even though everything had happened with my conflicted feelings and reactions throught these years...Katsuki's death made quite the impact on me, because of my love for his character, and just the beauty of the suffering in the whole chapter...now episode too...

Because I can feel how these little things caress my soul...Just like...

Katsuki's growth

Katsuki's regrets

Katsuki's drive for keep on winning, improving time and time again to unbelievable levels...

Katsuki's empathy...for Izuku.

...

The music, the settings, the visuals, the silences...every bit of it was beautiful in this episode, nothing less. They certainly catch the feeling of the manga when I read it...and they even added even more to it.

And 'beauty' is the only word I can think of to express what it meant for me.

So I'm...in peace.

Knowing this is NOT his end...looking forward for the ending of the manga, but just thinking on chapters 403 and 423...

I can say I'm in peace.

I wanted to see this episode with my whole being, I was craving for it just like I needed air...and I'm satisfied.

This chapter reminded me the enchanting beauty of Hori's work and why I have loved so much this series all along...

And, as I'm certain Katsuki's end was not here...either way, this moment became a changing point for many...including me.

[brionysea]

I would like to say that various characters' reactions to mike's depression in s2 vs max's depression in s4 is growth but a bigger part of me knows it's just the way they see mike

[meowdei]

I change my vision depending on the selfship tbh

[kukuandkookie]

Need to vent momentarily so uh…

Had a giant fight with my mom this morning about admiring Elon Musk or Donald Trump just because they’re “successful” which also evolved into her again critiquing her own children and how I pointed out that the shit she says about us can be hurtful, even when she insists she’s trying to be “encouraging.”

I won’t go into detail about it because my family issues are insane sometimes—but I wanted to add this context because maybe I still have some leftover frustration and rage from that, and I guess because I’ve experienced another weeks and weeks’ pile-up of sinophobia, and I’m also overwhelmed by how awful the world is right now with the continued genocide of Palestine but also the rise in normalization of right wing politics, but I saw something today that just added to the frustration because God I hate how people can’t see “the Other” in a less prejudiced light.

It’s not a big deal but saw some sinophobia today that with my poor mood didn’t help exactly:

Basically, there’s a short from a year ago about Chinese celebrities being snubbed at international events to the point that one of them (Liu Yifei) got cut off from a group photo and how another (Zhang Yuqi) got asked to get off the red carpet because they assumed she wasn’t a guest despite her being all dressed up.

The comments are all bullshit like “well they work for the CCP right? So they deserve to be ignored” or “why are you stirring up drama? Just because they’re famous in China doesn’t mean they’re famous internationally” or “haha a taste of China’s own medicine.”

Like oh my God, shut up.

These are international events. Why are you acting like snubbing an international guest isn’t worthy of critique? Just because you hate the country’s politics?? In that case, if you don’t even recognize the celebrity, how do you even know if they work for the oh-so-evil CCP???

It’s always “I don’t hate the Chinese; I just hate their government” until it comes to actual Chinese people because then your poor brain just assumes Chinese people are an extension of their government. You think these celebrities work for the government just by simply existing?? How? Do you think they pay their wages to the CCP or some shit???

Kpop fans mentioned for years that kpop celebrities were snubbed at international red carpets until recently. Why the hell don’t fans of Chinese celebrities get to point it out then?

[wild-at-mind]

You, individually, do not have the power to save Palestine.